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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943
Reduction in Price Should Accompany Lowering of Athletic Program Quality
The University Athletic board is working on a football schedule for next fall which will include primarily as the opposition smaller schools of this area. Most of the larger schools are naturally excluded because of the transportation difficulties involved in large scale travel.
The Athletic board has already announced its intention of maintaining the athletic portion of activity ticket fees at the same level they were placed this year. Feeling it necessary that the students receive something in the way of compensation for this price, they have decided, if at all possible, to continue football in the fall.
Now, there is much of logic in the reasoning of the board, for certainly the costs must be met. However, there is also much of logic in the resentment of students, who feel it unfair that they be required to pay as much to witness Baker, Rockhurst, or other small colleges in action as they have in the past to see the mighty Seahawks, Nebraska, or Oklahoma. Human nature being what it is, they seem—perhaps illogically—more willing to pay a high price to see the Jayhawks lose 61 to 0 to the Seahawks than to lose 30 to 0 to Baker.
They point out that while the curtailment of athletics will cut sharply into costs, it will not effect some standing expenses such as interest on stadium bonds, salaries, etc. Smaller enrollment also means fewer tickets sold. They feel justified in asking students to pay an equal price for an inferior grade of athletic entertainment this fall.
They point out that the quality of the merchandise offered to the public should be the determining factor in the fixation of the selling price, not the cost of production. They therefore feel that the athletic board should find some other means of meeting the costs of athletics here at the University next year, and that the student activity fee should be reduced in proportion to the quality of entertainment which will be offered the student.
Perhaps the athletic board will find itself in such a position that no other means of meeting the standing expenses can be found. If such is the result, however, considerable grumbling and with some justification-can be expected on the part of the student body.JDK
Continued Bombings on Germany May Decide Air Power Question
Germany, with Berlin as a central point has been the target of increasing Allied bombing raids; the Saturday night raid was the heaviest of the war. Leaving fires that could be seen for nearly a hundred miles, the Allied bombers completed another chapter in the campaign attempting to show that airpower can bomb a nation to her knees.
On the outcome of such attacks against the enemy territory probably will depend the answer to the question of whether bombing alone will win this war. The Allied high commands are counting on the raids over Europe to weaken Germany fast enough to make her a pushover for the land attack promised this
Just Wondering
If "Eleanor" shouldn't take over the job of supervising Vassar girls in their daily hour job of practical homework—making beds, etc.—as is now required of the coeds.
--year. American four-motored bombers are winging their way over Germany in daylight raids and are dropping bombs on their targets without losing a too-high percentage of their raiding planes. The official proportion is four enemy planes for every Allied bomber lost in the war. Meanwhile, Britain is continuing her night raids over the heart of Germany and is having devastating effect.
Just when the question of the real effectiveness of airpower will be answered is unknown. The Allies have set up a three-fold plan which may prove to be the answer to that question as well as to the Hitler menace itself. The points of the plan are to encircle Germany by Allied airfields from which to hit Germany from all sides, to maintain air raids against Germany solidly hour by hour, and to develop at increasing speed more true air weapons, bigger and better bombers, and greater bomb loads. Though the effectiveness of such a plan may not be demonstrated for months to come, it is true that Allied planes are hitting the enemy all over the world.
The result is a steady progress toward the time when the Japanese and Germans will have a constant visit from Allied air forces and progress toward the day when at last the question about air power will be answered.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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By MARY MORRILI
Another Murphy to the fold: Nancy Tomlinson, Theta, wrote a letter to Bud Murphy, former KU Beta, and addressed it simply, Bud Murphy, his serial number, and United States Army. In spite of the fact that Nancy made some 12 hours of A last semester, she honestly believed her epistle would arrive.
Ailleen Ainsworth, roommate, realized the peril of the important letter, remembered that Bud is stationed somewhere in Pennsylvania and so, in a fit of level headedness, added "Penn." beneath Nancy's terse directions.
In spite of this precaution, the letter reached a strange Bud Murphy also somewhere in Pennsylvania. He answered immediately and now there are two Murphys in the Tomlinson repertoire.
Aileen is demanding compensation for her part in the acquisition:
The world's a cruel place: Dean McCormick says he feels better now that he's been assured it was accidental; however, the whole affair was pretty horrible.
Returning from the show, Paula Reeye, Kappa, went upstairs for her picture, sent it down to date McCormick, and the two parted ways. Back at the house upon retiring, Dean decided to take the portrait out of its folder for one fond glance before relinquishing it to the KuKu queen committee. From the outset, the picture impressed him as being exceedingly masculine: Someone else remarked on it, too, and then suddenly Dean realized it was a man—the other man.
The bare facts: Maurice Beardmore, Sigma Nu, obtained inside information that the Chi Omega "come as you are party" to which dates would be invited over five minutes before dinner was to be served would come off either Tuesday or Thursday. Thinking to fox friend Jean Porter he formulated plans to shower both Tuesday and Thursday and be ready. However—
The summons came Tuesday while Maurice was still dripping from head to foot. With only five minutes to go there wasn't mush he could do. He wrapped a large Sigma Nu towel around his waist and fled.
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The Chi O's screamed lustily when their guests entered but the novelty of it all wore off when the rumor was confirmed that Beardmore had a pair of trunks under the towel.
Beardmore confesses he had a few qualms at the first of the evening, but he says he enjoyed the party as a whole. By the time dinner was over, several girls in nightshirts had made him feel perfectly at home.
"Hey there, (censored), your shoe string is untied!" And the poor unsuspecting guy, deeply absorbed in the question of whether his "unknown" is mercury or lead, is greeted by a loud "April Fool" when he attempts to retie an already perfectly tied knot.
Over in Blake, scholar (?) A gleefully informs scholar doubtful) B to watch brother C at the inclined plane . A confidentially $ ^{ \dagger} $
Over in Blake, scholar (C
(again doubtful) B to watch
table; for, as A confidentially
explains, the support under
one end of the 20-pound bar
has been loosened. A few
minutes later a perfect example
of an April Fool joke, by this time
completely black under the nail, is
presented to Watkins hospital for
bandaging.
Yes, that nightmare of days, April Fool's day, with all its humorous, horrible, and worn-out aspects, is here again. How did such a day ever get its start? What is it that makes people, civilized to the extent of killing each other with intricate machines of war instead of clubs, indulge in such childish horseplay each spring?
Undoubtedly the day's origin can be dug out of some big, black, dusty book; but it would probably be as boring as most history, so why bother.
By RICHARD HARTZELL
Perhaps spring itself helps in the
Spring and April Fools Have Fun, Kids
devilish concoction. Maybe it is the same thing that makes buds come out on trees and marbles out of little boy's pockets, the same thing that causes baseballs to be thrown about, and the grass to be trampled in Fowler's grove and around Potter's lake.
"Ah, yes," dreams the poet; "Perhaps," drawls the slightly bored mathematician; and "Undoubtedly," asserts the ever-alert psychologist, "It is the spring, that time when the "Heavenly Ear" comes down (pardon the transfer of April into June) and tries the earth if it be in tune."
That ear must definitely lack a perfect sense of pitch to be satisfied with the present tuning pitch of the world, as no tuning adjustments have been noticed lately. Or maybe it is just tolerant and is satisfied with what it hears, the sound of shells and bombs over there, and the
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